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AE 1151 - Interview: How to Learn 5 Languages from Scratch with Camille Hanson – Part 1

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How to Change Your Accent in America

I think it's pretty hard to change your accent unless you've lived there for a long time. Did you ever notice kids doing that though in school when they had traveled overseas and then came back? We had, I went to school and there were some children who got to do like gap years where they would go to different country. And so as soon as they got there, they wanted to fit in and just changed how they, you know, settled at the different vowel sounds and the arse especially. It was just really interesting seeing how obviously amenable they were to changing and adapting based on their social group.

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